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>I can prove now, for instance, that two human hands exist. How? By holding up my two hands, and saying, as I make a certain gesture with the right hand, "Here is one hand," and adding, as I make a certain gesture with the left, "and here is another."

What anglo magic this is. what power...

>I can prove now, for instance, that two human hands exist. How? By holding up my two hands, and saying, as I make a certain gesture with the right hand, "Here is one hand," and adding, as I make a certain gesture with the left, "and here is another."

so this is the power of analytic philosophy

Here is one hand,
And here is another.
There are at least two external objects in the world.
Therefore, an external world exists.

>and my proof

Would Moore's common sense argument for the external world work if he only had one hand?